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Moderna Therapeutics (United States)

In research, Moderna Therapeutics (United States) stands highest in Life Sciences (#1,041 of 7,800 worldwide), Medicine (#2,843 of 10,443 worldwide) and Health Sciences (#3,982 of 11,982 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology — Infectious Diseases is 25.0× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#2,411
of 28,054 · #4,994 all time
Rank in United States
#368
of 4,192
Research works
385
▲ 594% vs 2013–17
Citations
16k
41.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
33.6%
record average 16.5%
Open access
78%
world 28%

What is Moderna Therapeutics (United States) known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022–2025, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Life SciencesDomain #1,041 of 7,800 41.3%79 #2185
MedicineField #2,843 of 10,443 35.0%120 #6047
Health SciencesDomain #3,982 of 11,982 34.5%125 #8114

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Moderna Therapeutics (United States) sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no world mark, because the world rate differs by field (from about 6% to 21% in this record).

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022–2025. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Life Sciences#2,185 #1,041
  2. Medicine#6,047 #2,843
  3. Health Sciences#8,114 #3,982
all time2022–2025, better2022–2025, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

What does Moderna Therapeutics (United States) specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Infectious Diseases takes 25.0× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Infectious DiseasesSubfield · 41.5 works25×
  2. EpidemiologySubfield · 35.9 works10×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.70× its world share, 8 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3.86× its world share, 50 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 7.46× its world share, 18 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.46× its world share, 2 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.89× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.26× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.21× its world share, 4 worksComputer ScienceEnergy: 0.52× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.07× its world share, 3 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.19× its world share, 2 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.19× its world share, 2 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 2.23× its world share, 6 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.18× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.62× its world share, 4 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 2.56× its world share, 120 worksMedicineNursing: 0.28× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.72× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.13× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesDecision Sciences: 1.21× its world share, 3 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.03× its world share, 5 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.18× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.31× its world share, 10 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Immunology and Microbiology, 7.5×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Moderna Therapeutics (United States)?

Ranked on the composite score, Jacqueline M. Miller, Weiping Deng and Andrea Carfı́ lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Moderna Therapeutics (United States).

  1. 1 Jacqueline M. Miller United States · #141,344 worldwide 235 citations · 29 works
  2. 2 Weiping Deng United States · #422,523 worldwide 137 citations · 16 works
  3. 3 Andrea Carfı́ United States · #544,414 worldwide 80 citations · 16 works
  4. 4 Philip O. Buck United States · #604,355 worldwide 50 citations · 23 works
  5. 5 Ekkehard Beck United States · #1,483,385 worldwide 16 citations · 27 works
All ranked researchers at Moderna Therapeutics (United States)

Which keywords describe research at Moderna Therapeutics (United States)?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Vaccine, Pandemic, SARS-CoV-2, Coronavirus, ACE2 Receptor, Immunity and Viral Transmission.

▲ more of its work than of the world’s◆ about the world’s share▼ less than the world’s

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this institution's work against its share of the world's. The 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology59▲ 6.2×43 topics
  2. Vaccine44▲ 44×10 topics
  3. Pandemic38▲ 14×6 topics
  4. SARS-CoV-231▲ 39×6 topics
  5. Coronavirus29▲ 57×2 topics
  6. ACE2 Receptor28▲ 48×2 topics
  7. Immunity28▲ 28×5 topics
  8. Viral Transmission25▲ 69×4 topics
  9. Pathogenesis24▲ 20×14 topics
  10. Immune Response23▲ 16×12 topics
  11. Mutation22▲ 48×2 topics
  12. antibody22▲ 84×1 topic
  13. spike protein22▲ 84×1 topic
  14. Vaccine Development22▲ 35×6 topics
  15. Infection15▲ 26×6 topics
  16. Gene Therapy15▲ 31×4 topics
  17. Viral Infections14▲ 103×2 topics
  18. Disease Burden14▲ 78×2 topics
  19. Human Metapneumovirus14▲ 123×1 topic
  20. Respiratory Syncytial Virus14▲ 123×1 topic
  21. Transplant Recipients10▲ 69×2 topics
  22. Gene Silencing9▲ 39×2 topics
  23. Antiviral Therapy9▲ 38×3 topics
  24. RNA Interference9▲ 44×1 topic
  25. siRNA Delivery9▲ 63×1 topic
  26. COVID-19 Vaccine9▲ 48×2 topics
  27. Health Behavior8▲ 34×1 topic
  28. Vaccine Hesitancy8▲ 52×1 topic
  29. Antigen Presentation8▲ 38×2 topics
  30. Metagenomics8▲ 35×2 topics
  31. Genomics8▲ 11×3 topics
  32. Immune Evasion8▲ 67×2 topics
  33. Thrombosis8▲ 11×3 topics
  34. Antibodies7▲ 54×2 topics
  35. Virus7▲ 31×2 topics
  36. Congenital Infection7▲ 98×1 topic
  37. Cytomegalovirus7▲ 98×1 topic
  38. Genomic Sequencing7▲ 25×2 topics
  39. Circovirus7▲ 92×1 topic
  40. Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus7▲ 92×1 topic

Which research topics does Moderna Therapeutics (United States) publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research, Respiratory viral infections research, RNA Interference and Gene Delivery and Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy.

SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 …22SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research: 22 fractional worksRespiratory viral infections research: 14 fractional worksRNA Interference and Gene Delivery: 9 fractional worksVaccine Coverage and Hesitancy: 8 fractional worksCytomegalovirus and herpesvirus research: 7 fractional worksAnimal Virus Infections Studies: 7 fractional worksViral gastroenteritis re…7Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology: 7 fractional worksInfluenza Virus Research Studies: 6 fractional worksCOVID-19 Clinical Research Studies: 6 fractional worksVirus-based gene therapy research: 5 fractional works
Infectious DiseasesEpidemiologyMolecular BiologyHealth2 others

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research Infectious Diseases 22 works
  2. 2 Respiratory viral infections research Epidemiology 14 works
  3. 3 RNA Interference and Gene Delivery Molecular Biology 9 works
  4. 4 Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy Health 8 works
  5. 5 Cytomegalovirus and herpesvirus research Epidemiology 7 works
  6. 6 Animal Virus Infections Studies Animal Science and Zoology 7 works
  7. 7 Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology Infectious Diseases 7 works
  8. 8 Influenza Virus Research Studies Epidemiology 6 works
  9. 9 COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies Infectious Diseases 6 works
  10. 10 Virus-based gene therapy research Genetics 5 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world’s own shares — the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available78.3%not open21.7%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors25.8%domestic only74.2%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Moderna Therapeutics (United States)'s research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 594% higher than in 2013–2017.

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The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

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